We don't want wars even when we win.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?

She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart - or the darker places of her soul.

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

She loved the way her city always sounded like it was celebrating.

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.

I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do.

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts

Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.

Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.